On 10 June 2025, Dr Felix Schniz presented the Virtual Campus Environment, a central achievement of the UNESCO-funded project Global Campus Online (GLOCO). The project is led by the UNESCO-Chair Univ.-Prof. Dr Hans Karl Peterlini and revolves around the organisation of global meeting platforms to foster supportive environments and knowledge exchange. The Virtual Campus Environment […]
Big news for spider fans: The viral sensation and wacky physics game A Webbing Journey is launching in Early Access on May 19th, on PC via Steam and got a new trailer too! Congrats to Sebastian and his team! A Webbing Journey has been drumming up excitement over the past months with gathering millions of […]
From 3 to 4 May, Game Studies and Engineering has been present at the HaruCon in Klagenfurt. As every year, the programme direction hosted an info-booth about Game Studies and Engineering @ AAU, enabled students to showcase their current game projects, and organised a workshop for those interested in the programme’s research. The annual HaruCon […]
Farzad recently participated in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. The conversation covered a range of topics, and the final article has now been published. You can find the full piece at the following link: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000262214/forscher-aus-klagenfurt-inspizieren-windraeder-mit-drohnenschwaermen
Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2025 URL: https://weizhou-geek.github.io/workshop/MM2025.html In health and medicine, an immense amount of data is being generated by distributed sensors and cameras, as well as multimodal digital health platforms that support multimedia, such as audio, video, image, 3D geometry, and text. The availability of such multimedia data from medical devices and digital record […]
ACM MM’25 Tutorial: Perceptually Inspired Visual Quality Assessment in Multimedia Communication ACM MM 2025, October 27, 2025, Dublin, Ireland https://acmmm2025.org/tutorial/ Tutorial speakers: Wei Zhou (Cardiff University) Hadi Amirpour (University of Klagenfurt) Tutorial description: As multimedia services like video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual quality becomes […]
URL: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tomm Authors: Ahmed Telili (INSA, Rennes, France), Wassim Hamidouce (INSA, Rennes, France), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Sid Ahmed Fezza (INPTIC, Algeira), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Luce Morin (INSA, Rennes, France) Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS ) has emerged as a prevalent approach for over-the-top (OTT ) video streaming services due to its ability […]
On Febuary 25 2025, Felix Schniz held a talk titled “Mit Erfahrung lehren: Von Kafka, Spielen, und dem Erleben abstrakter Inhalte“ at the Conference Didaktik des TTRPG – Das ludonarrative Rollenspiel im Deutschunterricht in Cologne. His talk focused on the usage of video games and information technology didactics and their potential role in central European […]
Efficient Location-Based Service Discovery for IoT and Edge Computing in the 6G Era Authors: Kurt Horvath, Dragi Kimovski Conference: 2025 10th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2025) Abstract: Efficient service discovery is a cornerstone of the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing ecosystems, where low latency and localized service provisioning are […]
Title: For Empowerment’s Sake: Rethinking Video Game Adaptations Of Real-Life Experiences Author: Kseniia Harshina Abstract: In adapting real-life experiences into interactive narratives, video games have prioritized empathy-building as a central design goal (review in Schrier & Farber, 2021). This often involves crafting stories and gameplay mechanics that allow players without direct exposure to experiences such […]